Model
Most groups pass at model level: composition, durability, reparability, footprint. The record every unit of that model shares.
ESPR 2024/1781 · The Digital Product Passport roadmap
First batteries. Then textiles. Then everything.
Steel, aluminium, furniture, mattresses, toys: the passport reaches the whole economy one delegated act at a time. The engine underneath doesn't change.
The problem
One framework. Every product, in its turn.
The passport is not a battery thing, or a textiles thing. It is a framework. ESPR bolts the same carrier, the same identifiers and the same registry onto product group after product group, one delegated act at a time. When your act lands, the data problem is the one every group before you already hit: the proof lives up your chain, the duty lands on you.
Batteries and textiles are live. Steel, aluminium, furniture, toys, the rest ride the same rail. Same carrier, same identifiers, same registry. Only the fields change.
6priority product groups in the first ESPR Working Plan
8shared DPP standards, one carrier for any product
10years a passport must stay reachable, even if you fold
0of them you can meet with a PDF. The record is machine-read
One carrier. One set of identifiers. One registry. Whatever the product, the passport is the same machine underneath, and the next delegated act is only a new template.
ESPR · Regulation (EU) 2024/1781The flow
One passport, assembled across the chain.
The law asks one company for a record it doesn't hold. Bindu builds it in seven moves, the same seven for any product group.
01 · Ask
Ask each tier for the field it holds.
Whatever the product, the passport pulls from the same chain. Bindu asks every supplier for one field, in the format they already keep it.
compositionorigindurabilityrecycled %test report
02 · Normalise
Turn documents into identifiers.
Every answer maps onto the shared DPP data model, the one CEN-CENELEC JTC 24 wrote for every product group. Nobody re-keys the same certificate twice.
unique product IDoperator IDfacility IDGS1 Digital LinkEN 1821x
03 · Verify
Recalculate. Don't just trust.
Gates recompute what the rules let authorities recompute, and attach the third-party evidence the delegated act names. The claim stands up to a customs check.
durabilityrecycled sharefootprintconformity
04 · Assemble
Fill the fields this act asks for.
Each delegated act picks its own Annex fields and its own grain. Bindu fills them from records you already hold, at model, batch or item.
identificationcompliancematerialscircularity
05 · Register
One identifier to Brussels. The data stays yours.
The unique identifier goes to the EU DPP Registry, live 19 July 2026. The content stays with you, or your passport service provider. Nothing sensitive sits on an EU server.
UID → EU Registrydecentralised contentno vendor lock-in
06 · Carrier
Put a durable link on the product.
Mint the carrier the act requires: a QR to ISO/IEC 18004, or RFID or NFC. It stays legible and resolves for the life of the product.
QR · ISO/IEC 18004RFID · NFCon the product
07 · Publish
One record, three doors.
It goes live with three doors: public for buyers, legitimate interest for repairers and recyclers, authority for customs. Kept ten years, in every EU language, backed up if you fold.
PublicLegitimate interestAuthority10-yr retention
The scan
Scan the label. Read its life.
A buyer, a repairer, a customs officer. One record, a different door for each. It works the same whether it's a sofa, a tyre or a toy.
Bindu passport · UID
PublicUnique product identifier
PublicProduct category & model
PublicManufacturer identity
PublicCountry of assembly
PublicMaterial composition
PublicSubstances of concern
PublicDurability & reliability class
PublicReparability score
PublicRecycled content share
PublicRecyclability
PublicEnvironmental footprint
PublicCare & use instructions
PublicSafety warnings
PublicWarranty
PublicEU declaration of conformity
Legit. interestDisassembly & repair instructions
Legit. interestSpare-part sources
Legit. interestLocation of substances of concern
Legit. interestEnd-of-life & recycling guidance
Legit. interestDetailed material breakdown
AuthorityConformity certificates & test reports
AuthorityEconomic-operator contacts
AuthorityTechnical-documentation references
Static, model data is public. The rest opens to a legitimate interest or an authority. The doors are the same for every product group, only the fields change.
Granularity
Model, batch, or item?
How fine the passport goes is set by each delegated act, not by you. Most groups pass at model level. Some, like batteries, go all the way to the unit.
Batch
Where a value changes run to run, the act asks for it per batch: the plant, the date, a recycled-content share.
Item
Some acts, batteries first, push to the individual unit: a serial ID and a living record that follows that one product for life.
The fields and the grain are fixed by each delegated act under ESPR Articles 5 and 9. Bindu fills whichever the act names, from the records you already keep, so a change of grain is a setting, not a rebuild.
The calendar
The roadmap is public.
Two dates are fixed in statute. The product-group dates are indicative: the Commission's own plan, and each act applies about 18 months after it lands. The direction does not change.
18 Jul 2024
ESPR enters into force, replacing the 2009 Ecodesign Directive and extending the passport from energy products to almost everything physical.
16 Apr 2025
The first Working Plan names six priority groups: textiles, furniture, mattresses, tyres, iron and steel, aluminium, plus the horizontal repair and recycled-content measures.
19 Jul 2026Statutory
Two things at once: the EU DPP Registry goes live, the shared lookup that holds every product's identifier, and the ban on destroying unsold textiles and footwear starts to bite for large companies (Article 25).
2026 to 2027
Iron and steel first, then aluminium and tyres: the first delegated acts, and the first real test of the passport outside batteries. Textiles rides the same wave and has its own page.
2028 to 2029
Furniture, then mattresses, plus the horizontal measures on reparability and recycled content. Cement waits on its own conditional window, no earlier than end 2028 (Article 18(6)).
1 Aug 2030Statutory
The Toy Safety Regulation applies: every toy needs a passport, and it replaces the paper declaration of conformity (Regulation (EU) 2025/2509).
The loop
The passport is the point, not the paperwork.
ESPR is not a labelling law. It is a design law. The passport exists so a product can be repaired, resold and recycled instead of binned.
A repairer needs the spare-part number and the disassembly steps. A recycler needs the composition and where the substances of concern sit. A buyer wants to know it will last. Today that information dies at the till. The passport is where it survives, for every product group, not just batteries.
- reparability hidden
- no spare-part source
- composition unknown
- destroyed unsold
- binned at end of life
How it's built
One engine. Every product group.
Whatever the next delegated act names, the plumbing is the same. Bindu runs on Eclipse Tractus-X, the open dataspace stack behind Catena-X, so a new product group is a new template, not a new system. Pick a building block.
Circular economy
Eco Pass
The Digital Product Passport blueprint. Its generic DPP aspect model carries any product group, and the reference viewer resolves the carrier to a public or restricted view.
- Generic DPP aspect model
- QR / RFID carrier
- Public + restricted views
Who files it
The next act is a template, not a rebuild.
ESPR names an independent passport service provider to run the DPP for the operator. Bindu is built for that, across every group at once. When your delegated act lands, the record is already half-built.
One enginethe same carrier, IDs and registry for any product
10 yearsevery passport kept and reachable
24 languageslive in every official EU language
Backed upreachable even if you cease trading
A templatea new act is a new form, not a new system